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Ted Cruz's Strategy: To Hell With Independents
Fox Nation ^ | December 15, 2014 | Eliana Johnson

Posted on 12/15/2014 10:51:09 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

To hell with the independents. That’s not usually the animating principle of a presidential campaign, but for Ted Cruz’s, it just might be.

His strategists aren’t planning to make a big play for so-called independent voters in the general election if Cruz wins the Republican nomination. According to several of the senator’s top advisers, Cruz sees a path to victory that relies instead on increasing conservative turnout; attracting votes from groups — including Jews, Hispanics, and Millennials — that have tended to favor Democrats; and, in the words of one Cruz strategist, “not getting killed with independents.”

Twenty-three months from the presidential election, it seems all but a given that the freshman senator, who has been in Congress just two years, will mount a bid for the White House...

(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2016; cruz; gop; tedcruz
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To: bkopto

I tend to put them in the “I’m-really-a-liberal-who-doesn’t-care-until-the-commies-raise-my-taxes-and-cost-of-living” category.


21 posted on 12/15/2014 11:09:13 AM PST by gr8eman (Bill Carson...meet Arch Stanton!)
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To: Jewbacca

22 posted on 12/15/2014 11:09:27 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"the Republican nomination"

I can't think of anything good coming from the Republican "inside" group that shuns Sarah Palin.

23 posted on 12/15/2014 11:09:43 AM PST by OldNavyVet
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

Who do you work for? Huckabee? Jeb? Romney?


24 posted on 12/15/2014 11:10:12 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rupert Murdoch is a big Hillary donor. He will make sure Fox slants everything to boost Jeb Bush as the GOP candidate because he will be easy for Hillary to beat.


25 posted on 12/15/2014 11:12:04 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I really doubt the elites will allow Cruz to get the nomination. They have their own candidates in play.


26 posted on 12/15/2014 11:17:17 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This independent is a rock hard conservative that cant stand the establishment GOP. I doubt if I am alone.


27 posted on 12/15/2014 11:25:45 AM PST by Breto (Stranger in a strange land... where did America go?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Who do you work for? Huckabee? Jeb? Romney?

He works for Jeb Romney and Mitt Bush.

28 posted on 12/15/2014 11:28:49 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy
Cruz is a political opportunist with a white silk tie. Enough said!

What kind of tie should he be wearing?

29 posted on 12/15/2014 11:30:51 AM PST by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: Breto
This independent is a rock hard conservative that cant stand the establishment GOP. I doubt if I am alone.

That's not the kind of "independent" this approach is talking about, though. You'd be part of the "base", even if you're not GOP.

30 posted on 12/15/2014 11:32:51 AM PST by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy
Reagan was a true conservative. Cruz is a political opportunist with a white silk tie. Enough said!

Aw, c'mon say some more. Who would YOU rather see as the nominee?

31 posted on 12/15/2014 11:33:17 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Real Independents are Democrat voters who want the Republicans to run as
Democrats so then they can just vote Democrat because Republicans are no different.

32 posted on 12/15/2014 11:36:26 AM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

So who do you want? Tell us all.


33 posted on 12/15/2014 11:37:18 AM PST by gwgn02
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is actually the greatest strategy. These so called independents ARE the sheep. They believe whatever you tell them but they MOSTLY have conservative values. Tell them the conservative message WITH conviction and passion and they will vote for Cruz en masse.


34 posted on 12/15/2014 11:40:03 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Fresh Wind

We asked him on another thread. He won’t say.


35 posted on 12/15/2014 11:41:33 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Hey Jack,
if the votes are to many they cannot steal any election through the court.
The same applies with support for any candidate, if there "is" to much support
they cannot fix the election. Hillary and Obama comes to mind. Obama kicked her ass
and he was not entitled to anything, he was not the chosen one until the numbers came out.

Also,
Conservatism applies to all, most choose to ignore their own principals.
It takes word-smithing to bring people out of that shell.


How will the MSM treats his ethnic background will be interesting to hear.

36 posted on 12/15/2014 11:43:33 AM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
As an Independant, I disagree with Fox.

Ordinary working class Republicans, Independants and Democrats have been abandoned and are being abused by the Elites of both parties and these voters from across the political spectrum who have been the backbone of America are fed up and looking for a politician who speaks for them

There are two on the national scene - Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin and one who is below the radar screen in Wisconsin - Scott Walker.

37 posted on 12/15/2014 11:44:48 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve been wondering the same thing.....as it’s so darn obvious.


38 posted on 12/15/2014 11:45:47 AM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL! For some reason, that doesn’t surprise me.


39 posted on 12/15/2014 11:46:17 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Right...The problems of America and the issues are so clear cut that the whole idea of a person calling him/herself ‘Independent’ is laughable.

‘Independent’. Really?

No one in their right mind ISN’T real clear about their position by NOW.


40 posted on 12/15/2014 11:53:50 AM PST by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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